But despite Grosso’s assertion, nearly all witnesses opposing the bill, including Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women, argued that its provision decriminalizing the act of buying sex by “Johns” would lead to an enormous increase in sex trafficking targeting both children and adults.
This isn’t a wage gap. It’s wage theft. And it’s not only stealing money from women, it’s stealing their future.
According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, women who hold full-time jobs in the United States lose a combined total of more than $915 billion every year because of this wage gap.
“The punishing conditions imposed by the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and Customs and Border Protection on immigrants at the southern border continue to threaten the lives of tens of thousands of vulnerable persons,” said Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women, which organized the rally.
“Immigrant families are being inhumanely locked away in horrific and immoral detention facilities in Southern California and around the nation, and women and girls are suffering the most,” NOW’s president Toni Van Pelt, wrote in a statement.